In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
JAMES MADISONThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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